Articles by Northern Miner Staff

The inquiry into the operations and regulation of the Vancouver Stock Exchange (VSE) and British Columbia Securities Commission has taken to the road for public hearings. The inquiry headed by James M…

Besides changing its name from Barytex Resources, the company has announced a change of control and a rollback of one new share for every four old shares. It has also amalgamated with a private compan…

CDN-listed Initiative Explorations has bought a 12% interest in Riba Corp., a Delaware-based chemical company. The price: US$200,000. Initiative plans to provide Riba, which is operating on a break-ev…

Members of a 66-year-old syndicate will be reinstated as shareholders of Teddy Bear Valley Mines (CDN) following approval of the company’s Plan of Arrangement by the Ontario Court of Justice. The plan…

The share consolidation when Zahavy Mines (ZVY:ASE) recently changed its name to Xavier Mines (XXX:ASE) was one new share for five old shares. It was incorrectly stated as a one-for-one swap.

The mining industry is applauding a decision by the British Columbia government to put its controversial environmental assessment act on hold pending further consultation. Strong concerns about the pr…

The Canadian diamond exploration play has attracted too much uninformed opinion of late. For the record, we will boldly go where only a few have gone before (i.e., out on the limb) and render the foll…

It was a good-news/bad-news kind of week for the backers of the South Kemess project. First, a prefeasibility study on the South Kemess copper-gold project in north-central British Columbia predicts a…

Red ink at the Similco Mines division continues to stain Princeton Mining (TSE), which lost $5.3 million in the second quarter ended June 30. Drooping copper prices and operational problems at its Sim…

Toronto-based Repadre Capital (VSE) has been granted conditional approval for a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In other news, Repadre has received more than $250,000 in royalty payments from p…

I have just reviewed Paul Sarnoff’s July 7 Gold Stock Advisory report on Canadian diamond exploration. I am a retired steel salesman in the U.S. and that seems to put Sarnoff and I in the same class, …

A Canadian group has teamed up with a major research and development institute in Ukraine to market technology and advanced materials, including an aluminum-scandium alloy designed for the aerospace i…